Tarq,
I don't see how my comments about VFR indicate anything whatsoever about simulation. Yes I have many simulator "hours" but the simulator is nothing like reality...even a child would know this much. I could see a sim being helpful for IFR training...and/or VOR/NDB navigation but a VFR nav aid? No way. Now if I bought x-plane and downloaded actual satellite topography for my local aerodrome then maybe that would help ever so slightly, but the very basic and generic FSX scenery, no way.
I don't understand why various ASSUMPTIONS about me were made in several of the replies. I'm just trying to learn.